Starcraft News for Oct. 15th
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On that millenium bug thing... Click me :)The Klingon's Have Arrived
Yes!!! Just got word that The Klingon Honor Guard is in EB stores today! Go, get it now! Then tell me how it is. I can't get it till tomorrow :( Seriously any of ya'll get it, let me know how it is. The graphics look awsome. Thanks to J. Carter for letting me know, seems I'm not the only trekker out there :)Planet: Starcraft Returns !!
Garg is back and he's unveiled the all new Planet: StarCraft! Check out the site and bookmark it. The layout is COOL and he's got a detail of future plans for the site up. He also brought a nice little present for us! He found all those lovely new Brood War shots at Blizz's ftp site so now you can go a grab them without the excrutiatingly slooooooow load time that BGC was having. Welcome Back Garg !!Cendant Lures Lookers
MSNBC has an article up on the upcoming sell of Cendant Software, which includes Blizzard and Sierra Online, and who may be interested in acquiring it. No real hard facts in here, but I did find it interesting to know that Cendant Software owned 5 of the top 10 education software titles in addition to the mega hit games they had. Read the article here. [news source - SC.Org]New Customs Section
SC.Org has opened a new custom section that sounds pretty cool. To make this easy on myself I'm just going to copy paste the announcement:StarCraft.Org is proud to announce the opening of our brand new customs section. This is run by Mr.Book and Mr.Sleep, who were both trained by King Arthur of Camelot Systems. They will be releasing their own customs made with StarDraft, and in the near future, accepting user-submitted customs, and releasing tutorials to help you in designing your own customs."So just what is a custom?" I hear you ask. Well, they are custom designed modifications for StarCraft or StarEdit that allow you to add new units, buildings, spells, graphics and much more. Go check out the customs section for more info, and SC.org's first custom...
Ladder Map Survey
You love/hate the new Ladder Maps? StarLadder has a survey up on them. He does ask that you've actually played a few maps before taking the poll. Check it out here.
Starcraft News for Oct. 14th
New Brood War Shots and Images
Somehow BGC got ahold of 4 new Brood War images (look almost like cutscenes, and 7 new screenshots. They say many of these will be on the box. They made a slide show of them, start here. It loads slow so be patient.Brood War Sounds!
Blizzard has added sounds to the Brood War Units page. Just click their pic and be amazed :)Brood War Ads
PC Gamer has some ads for Brood War in it. Look on pages 156 & 157. For those of ya'll that don't get the mag, here's the scans. Page 1 and Page 2. Aren't I good to ya? Well ok, SC.Org was good to ya, but I snatched 'em for ya...that counts right ? :)Release Dates
Blizz has updated the Titles page with new release dates. I'd say mark them on your calendars but they're a little vague.On the Desert Poll
I got some emails so let me clarify. No, you don't have a modem. It's just you and the puter boys. Desert islands can be so cruel.Kali v1.57
The latest Kali is out. Grab the patch you need at the ftp site. Here's what's new.
- Added launch support for: Starcraft 1.03, Unreal 2.17, Enemy Infestation demo, Populous demo, Dominant Species Demo.
- Added TCP player search toolbar button and menu item.
- Added support for new Unreal Playerinfo in TCP games list.
- Game lobby now flashes if someone joins your game and the lobby window does not have focus.
- Fixed problem with Shadow Warrior user maps.
- Fixed problem with address book loosing names.
Station 17 Returning??
Looks as if might be according to this post! Thanks to SC Infinity for finding this tid bit.BLW Lives Again
Blizzard Live Wire has been down for several days. They finally got everything working again so if you've been missing them nows your chance to visit. They're also looking for a new news person.What's the Best Game of 1998...so far?
Gamesmania has a poll up on it. Choices are Commandos, Unreal, NHL 99, FFVII, and Starcraft. SC is currently in the lead with 56%. Go add to the landslide.
Starcraft News for Oct. 13th
New Poll
That Desert Island Thing actually got me thinking. (See the post below) Ok it's kinda dumb but hey, I wanna know. If your stuck on a desert island with a computer and one Blizz game... which one would you take? Think about it :) Thanks to everyone who voted in the Brood War Unit poll. You can view the results of it here.Antioch SCM
This weeks new SCM, Twin Pools, is ready for downloading. Grab it in the SCM Creations section at the Official Antioch Chronicles Web SiteSC Newsletter
The second issue of the Unofficial SC News letter is out. You can catch it here if you haven't subscribed yet.Can you say Deleted...
Mick let his fingers do the walking all over that keyboard last night as he deleted 4 pages worth of ladder players accounts. Read em and weep boys!2 New Customs
Infoceptor has two new War2 customs. There's the Interceptors-->Fireballs and the Disruption Cannon-->Throwing Axe. Check out all the War2 TC at Infoceptor here.That Desert Island Thing
Your on a desert island, with a computer and three games. Which three games would you choose? Gamecenter asked the question to 8 of todays leading game developers. Find out which ones they pick here. You might be surprised.All Heretics Day
Activision is planning on releasing the Heretic II demo in style. This was snatched right off the Heretic II website. They've also released a movie clip to wet your appetite. Download the AVI format (2.67mb) or Real Player format for both high and low bandwidths.
Gamers - prepare to renew your faith on All Heretics Day, Thursday, October 22! Activision, Inc. and Raven Software will launch the highly anticipated Heretic II demo. The launch will also include giveaways from Diamond and Mad Catz. The demo, which is comprised of two single player and two multiplayer levels, will debut simultaneously on Activision's Web site (www.activision.com) and on GameSpot's Spotlight (www.gamespot.com) at 6:00p.m. PDTFuture Cop Demo Released
EA has released a demo of its 3D shooter Future Cop: LAPD. The demo features two gameplay modes, Crime War and Precinct Assault, and 8 levels. Get more info and download it here.
Starcraft News for Oct. 12th
PGL Season 3
The PGL announced Season 3 will be held in San Fransisco at the cybercafe Club-i. Games will include StarCraft, Quake and Quake 2. Hey this one has more than $70,000 in cash and $40,000 in prizes up for grabs. It all goes down Nov. 12-14th. Check the PGL site for more details.Commando's Game Guide
Gamespot has a walkthrough up for Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines. If you've been having trouble with some of the missions this might help ya, but pf course you'll lose all self respect. j/k :)TA: Kingdoms Preview
PC.IGN has a preview up on Total Annihilation: Kingdoms and they like it. I have to admit, I never played TA, but this Warcraftish game might just change that. Check it out here. Tons of screenshots included. Gamespot also has a preview up here.Klingons Land in San Francisco
Interplay recently previewed Star Trek: Klingon Academy, in San Francisco. Fitting since the infamous, tho fictional, StarFleet Academy is based there. You can read about the game and what the designers are shooting for with it in this Gamecenter article.Online Comic Book
To promote their upcoming action/adventure game Redguard: The Elder Scrolls, Bethesda has put out an online comic book. It's hand drawn by Redguard lead artist, John Pearson and will cover events leading up to the beginning of the game. New pages are supposed to be added daily. Hey it's something different :) Check it out here.Arsenal v3.1 and Source Released
Camelot Systems and King Arthur have released Arsenal v3.1 with Orders.dat support. The source code is also available now!
Download Aresnal ver3.1 (219kb)
Download Source Code (129kb)Crossworlds Saga
The Crossworlds Saga mission pack (34megs) has been divided into 3 smaller files for easier downloading. If you've had probs d/l before, give it another try. The missions sound cool :)Vizer Interviewed
The Institute has an interview with Vizer from StarLadder up. Read it and get personal here.New Brood War Page
Extreme SC has opened it's Brood War section, and I have to admit *grumbles I gotta learn graphics better* that it looks just awesome. Check it out here. DesolationX did a great job on the layout.The Crusty Tavern
The name caught my eye so I thought I'd post on it. Inazuma of the Starshack has opened his own page called, yep you got it, The Crusty Tavern. This site will be didicated to battle stories and fan fiction on SC and BW. He's looking for stories now and someone to help out with the cgi and html'ing. If yourinterested, email him.Brood war Preview
Hardware Techs has a preview up on Brood War. Ok they call it Brood Wars but I guess we can let that slide. There really is nothing new in it, but if you just gotta read every preview out there, this one's for you. [news source - StarShack]Scum Runner Woes
Scum Runners has ran out of server space and is still looking for new ones. Someone get over there and host that site!
Starcraft News for Oct. 11th
New Printable Maps
Blizzard has put up the printable enlarged view of the new Ladder Maps. Go get em here.Warcraft Adventures 0.6
Warcraft Adventures is a graphical, text based game based on Warcraft for Windows. I haven't played this game but I know alot of people like it. Ver0.6 beta fixes a few bugs and adds some things like a save/load option a market and new monsters. Download it and get more info at their site.New Strats
If your hungry for some new strategies, SC Infinity has just added a bunch of them that were sent in by readers. Check em out in the strategy section at the site.Battle.net Proxy Daemon
Here's a new patch regarding proxy's and Diablo v1.07. I don't really know if this is from Blizzard or just worded weird in the disclaimer. Anyway, thanks to Wargasm over at Integrity for putting it up and I hope it helps. And btw, Happy Birthday Wargy!! Hope you have a great one! :)This is a reference implementation of a proxy server which will allow players whose machines are located behind a firewall, NAT, or IP Masquerading gateway to play games on Battle.net. This is probably not the fastest nor the most robust implementation possible; rather, it is intended to act as a guide so that those who are in the business of developing network proxy agents can integrate Battle.net support into their products. Although we welcome your comments and bug reports, Blizzard Entertainment cannot offer support for this software.On scLegacy
scLegacy has re-opened... sort of. The new front page is up but thats about it. They say it should be totally up in about a week.New MPQ data file
Saw over at Infoceptor that Turalyon has released a MPQ datafile to make the MPQ extractor compatible with SCv1.03. Grab it here. (15kb)
Starcraft News for Oct. 10th
StarDraft v3.0 Released!
Camelot Systems has released StarDraft v3.0 . This version fully supports the new SC 1.03 Patch and adds CWAD plugin editors for the majority of the dat files. Was that fast or what? :) Grab it nowStarDraft v3.0 - (660kb) - Created by Merlin
StarDraft Runtime - (800kb) - Grab this if you don't already have StarDraft.3Dfx Screens !!
Voodoo Extreme has posted some Diablo II screens in all their 3D glory! I have to admit, the 3D effects look just damn cool! They sold me, I want one. Something to note from the FAQ - "Currently, only cards which use the 3Dfx chipset (via the Glide API) are supported by Diablo II." Check out the screens below. [ news source - BGC ]Down in the Caverns
Amazon and Firewall
The New 2 Minte Rule
Apparantly complaints about the new 2 min rule are running rampant allready. Blizzards Rob Pardo (EnoYls) explains their reasons for changing it here. He's got a good point, give it a chance before you throw a fit.On the New Maps
The new maps were just released and people are allready complaining. I find this sad since Blizz didn't have to include any new maps at all. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. If you don't like the new maps, hey don't play them. Here's a post by Zileas, he doesn't like them and he hasn't even played them. (go figure) and here's a post by [9]Agent911, being the voice of reason. Rob Pardo (EnoYls) responds on the changes to the Green Valleys map here. (give em hell Rob!)Enlarged Views Coming
Shlonglor posted that he'll have the enlarged views for the new ladder maps up late tonight. See, they care :)
Third SCM of the Week??
Surprise! Blizzard has released a 3rd scm. Acropolis is an official Ladder Map so be sure to grab it! It's a 192x192 Jungle World for 2-6 players. Print the Enlarged Map View now! Here's the teaser :
Recent explorations have uncovered a previously uncharted island on the jungle planet of Ynoth. Located at the center of this island are six massive citadels surrounding the ruins of a seventh. This has caused a stir amongst the Shelak tribe as the Protoss seer Khyar wrote several cryptic passages concerning an mystic Acropolis referred to "The Six and The One". While it written in his works that, "...the ruler of the Six shall use the One to become the Only..." Khyar was also called the Mad Prophet in more than one historical record. Whether this power is real or merely legend, there is a great deal of interest in controlling this island as well as the ancient citadels. Download it now! (144k)Something a little funny, here's a post in the forums that makes you wonder, WAS it supposed to be a 3 scm week, or just an OOPs !
SCUnit v1.3 Released
Camelot Systems has released a new version of SCUnit. Changes you'll see include: A new interface (similar to Arsenal), More efficiently organized and some new things on the Weapons Tab. Download SCUnit v1.3 now! King Arthur also announced that Arsenal v3.1 complete with the source code and new features will be released soon! Get more info on that at Camelot Systems.Winamp v2.03 Released
Well they've released another new version of Winamp. Get a list of all the changes and download it here. [ news source - SI ]
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